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Military service
Age:
30
Rank:
Second Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Irish Regiment
Division:
2nd Bn.
Death:
June 10, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
V. A. 19.
Additional information
Son of Maj. Gen. John Burton Forster, C.B., and Olive Edith Mary Forster (nee Sergent); husband of Florence Gilmour (formerly Forster), of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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Commemorated on:
Page 571 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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CITADEL NEW MILITARY CEMETERY Somme, France
Fricourt is a village about 5 kilometres east of Albert and Citadel New Military Cemetery is approximately 2.5 kilometres south of Fricourt on the east side of the road to Bray-sur-Somme.
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